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Napoleon invading Russia was the start of the French invasion of Russia. The French forces failed and the French Allied Army was destroyed.
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In Uden, Germany, a meteorite landed in a field, narrowly missing a group of workers. It weighed approxamatly 740 grams.
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Alexandre Tansman was a neoclassical Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was the leading Polish composer after Chopin. He was born in Lodz, Poland, and died in Paris, France on November 15, 1986.
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Giorgio Nataletti was an Italian Musicologist, and the furst director of the Ethnomusicalogical Archives at the National Academy of Santa Cicilia in Rome.
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Bulat Okodzhava was a Russian poet, writer, musitian, and singer-songwriter. He has a stamp honoring him as well as a monument in Albat street in Moscow, Russia. He taught himself basic chords on the guitar, and by the end of his life claimed to know four chords in total.
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Pope Leo III was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. He was named a Roman Emporor and was a good freind of Charlemagne, who protected him in return for more power in the Roman Empire.
